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Lyon County DFL Chairman Tim Buysse admitted it probably wasn't as exciting as the Republican caucus across town, but it was nonetheless an important exercise in democratic involvement.

The vast majority of Minnesotans support Photo ID. This video, published by James O'Keefe and Project Veritas, exposes another gaping hole in Minnesota's election system.

For the second straight month, lack of seat belt use factored in a majority of Minnesota traffic deaths.

Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks at the Colorado Energy Summit in Golden, Colo., Monday, Feb.

The Minnesota Republican caucus has been called for Rick Santorum, giving the former Pennsylvania senator his second win on Tuesday after a huge victory in the Missouri primary.

I was planning to wait until this weekend to discuss the State Rep from ALEC's Mary Kiffmeyer and her strange war on Native Americans and their defenders, but I decided to take advantage of what Jon Walker had to say about the Virginia front in the GOP's War on Voting , and of a document that's circulating through the local online media, and which ... (more)

Several sources are predicting a Santorum surge in Missouri and Minnesota tonight, but there's reason for pause before we order out the "Rick 2012" bumper stickers.

The Missouri primary [was] a "beauty contest" vote . Although the precinct caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota [began] the process of selecting delegates to the national Republican convention, that process has no formal connection to the "straw votes" ... held at the precinct meetings in each state.

Hard as it may be to believe if you live in the Northeast or upper Midwest, last January was not the warmest on record across the lower 48 states, federal recordkeepers announced Tuesday.

House Republican leaders said Monday they will hold hearings on the pending release of a convicted pedophile from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program, calling the move "reckless'' and asking the Dayton administration to explain why Human Services Commissioner Lucinda Jesson dropped her original objections to such a move.

If Michele Bachmann's endorsement was going to matter anywhere, it would be in her home state.

As we celebrate his legacy, we remember the hope and optimism he had for America.

It has tantalized Republicans in recent presidential campaigns, but it's still wound up as general election fool's gold for the GOP ever since Richard Nixon last won it for the party in 1972.

A Somali-American man admitted Monday that he helped raise money so others could travel from Minnesota to join the terror group al-Shabab in Somalia, and that he sent money to Somalia so one of those travelers could buy a firearm.Ahmed Hussein Mahamud, 27, of Westerville, Ohio, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis to one ... (more)

Which plants changed Minnesota and transformed how we live today? The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum wants to know and is encouraging the public to nominate specific plants for a state's Top 10 list.

After five voting contests, 143 delegates have been awarded and former Massachusetts Gov.

The last time Chastity Brown released an album, it was summertime, two years ago, with High Noon Teeth -- a soulful piece, as bathed in vivid storytelling as Chastity's Tennessee background would have you believe.

The caucuses are coming. Television ads are getting airtime locally, and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was just down in Eagan Feb.

The battle over unions is coming to Minnesota. On Thursday, Lakeville Sen. Dave Thompson detailed a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow workers to opt out of unions and avoid paying union dues.

The school district told teachers never to show 'personal support for people' and they feared they would be fired if they did Michele Bachmann's former high school is under fire for a spate of suicides by gay and lesbian students that allegedly followed anti-homosexual school policy.